§ The result
Brainner leads Canditech by 7 points.
Under rubric v1.0, Brainner, filed under Screening, finishes on 46 and Canditech, filed under Assessment, on 39, 7 points apart. The 7 criteria split 4 to 1 in favour of Brainner, with 2 level: Brainner is ahead on Bias Audit Transparency and Canditech on Human Oversight Design. Even Bias Audit Transparency, the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing (Brainner 42, Canditech 25, 18% weight), is only 39% of the weighted advantage Brainner builds across the 4 criteria it leads.
Vendor profile
Brainner
Brainner is an AI screening layer for applicant tracking systems that scores and ranks applicants against recruiter-weighted criteria with per-criterion justifications, and flags suspected fake applicants using third-party identity and fraud data.
Vendor profile
Canditech
Canditech is a skills-assessment and job-simulation platform that screens candidates with work-sample tests, technical and soft-skill assessments, and one-way video interviews, using AI agents to auto-score open-text and video responses.
§ The record
Brainner is filed under Screening AI, Canditech under Assessment AI. They record no secondary category in common.
Both are in scope of EU AI Act, NYC LL 144, Colorado AI Act and Illinois HB 3773. Only Canditech is in scope of Mobley v. Workday.
| Record | Brainner | Canditech |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | IL |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
18% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Bias Audit Transparency
Brainner 42 · Canditech 25
3.1 weighted points to Brainner
20% weight · 75% of the movement so far
Article 11 Technical Documentation
Brainner 52 · Canditech 37
3.0 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Post-Market Monitoring
Brainner 45 · Canditech 32
1.6 weighted points to Brainner
12% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Human Oversight Design
Brainner 50 · Canditech 53
0.4 weighted points to Canditech
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Data Governance Disclosure
Brainner 53 · Canditech 52
0.1 weighted points to Brainner
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 5 figures above sum to +7.4 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 8.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +7 beside that +7.4.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Brainner minus Canditech.
| Category | Weight | Brainner | Canditech | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 52 | 37 | +15 | +3.0 |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 42 | 25 | +17 | +3.1 |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 30 | 30 | - | - |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 53 | 52 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 50 | 53 | -3 | -0.4 |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 45 | 32 | +13 | +1.6 |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 46 (F) | 39 (F) | +7 | +7.4 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | Brainner | Canditech | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Article 11 Technical Documentation | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Bias Audit Transparency | 18% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| FRIA Support | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data Governance Disclosure | 15% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Human Oversight Design | 12% | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Post-Market Monitoring | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Customer Documentation | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 33 | 4 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 11 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Brainner has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 33 with a source URL, 4 documented absences; Canditech has 18 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 11 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Brainner sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 55 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 37 for Brainner, across 2 distinct source domains, and 18 for Canditech, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- v1.0
- Brainner last reviewed
- September 25, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Canditech last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next